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Special Birthdays don’t need planning! How do you like your birthday?? Sometime ago last month was my birthday. Birthdays are truly special moments to celebrate life and thank God for the gift of life. People also deserve to be celebrated alive and well wishes too are beautiful and sometimes it conveys people’s feelings and prayers for us. People have approached different ways to celebrate birthdays, throw heavy or lightweight parties, take beautiful studio photos and make cinematographic videos detailing their journey over the past year or even beyond. This year I decided to take a different approach towards. A more personal reflective silent approach. To achieve this, I deactivated my date of birth from being public on my socials. Definitely, 95 percent of times we remember people’s birthday basically from social media reminders. This approach worked! The day nearly passed like every other day of my life save for my immediate family members that had known my birthday off social media notifications. Also there were about 4 other friends who somehow (maybe from archives 😀) knew and reached out. I even told a friend eventually on call that it was my birthday, but he didn’t believe because he saw no status neither from me nor from anybody else 😀. (He will read this). There was an icing on it! I went gently to eat lunch, and there was a man whose birthday was same day, he is being treated by his wife and two other friends I guess. They lighted a birthday candle for him and the restaurant played him a birthday song. The excited man announced his new age loudly to everybody “Allo tout le monde, j’ai 61 ans aujourd’hui !” (hello everybody, I am 61 years today!) People went to his table to make cheers with him, and so did I also. I then told him, it’s also my birthday today. Voilà! He became more happy and announced for the second time “allo tout le monde, on est deux!” (Hello everybody, we are two!) I quickly realized how shy 🙈 as a person I am. I managed to head to my seat. Unknown to me until I was about to leave, he had signaled the restaurant to add my bills to his. That was ezigbo ego maka chi, because I had ordered take away. Back home from work, my language teacher and the husband who has only known me for 1 year plus rang me and they immediately sang a birthday song for me. At first I was confused as to how she knew, but then realized that the first thing she does once she starts teaching you is to know your date of birth, and she does take note of them. How I became a son to her and the husband is a story for another day. They proceeded to ask me to come to the café shop close to my house in 30 minutes. We spent the next 2 hours together, eating chocolate cakes and sipping drinks. I felt so happy that the supposed silent birthday had been made flesh! I needed a silent birthday, though I got it, but the few unplanned cracks were filled with the uttermost love. One stupid lesson from the whole experience that I told myself was that it was really important to work hard to engrave yourself on people’s heart through good works that they need no reminders again to remember your special days. I also linked the experience to what becomes of us when we are finally gone. Finally, be not like me. Celebrate your birthdays, successes, achievements and whatever beautiful life throws at you, but also learn not hold grudges when people don’t remember to “post” your pictures with largely irrelevant words. Ngwanu ka chi foo.

Samzonal's tweet photo. Special Birthdays don’t need planning!

How do you like your birthday??

Sometime ago last month was my birthday. Birthdays are truly special moments to celebrate life and thank God for the gift of life. People also deserve to be celebrated alive and well wishes too are beautiful and sometimes it conveys people’s feelings and prayers for us.

People have approached different ways to celebrate birthdays, throw heavy or lightweight parties, take beautiful studio photos and make cinematographic videos detailing their journey over the past year or even beyond.

This year I decided to take a different approach towards. A more personal reflective silent approach.

To achieve this, I deactivated my date of birth from being public on my socials. Definitely, 95 percent of times we remember people’s birthday basically from social media reminders.

This approach worked! The day nearly passed like every other day of my life save for my immediate family members that had known my birthday off social media notifications. Also there were about 4 other friends who somehow (maybe from archives 😀) knew and reached out. I even told a friend eventually on call that it was my birthday, but he didn’t believe because he saw no status neither from me nor from anybody else 😀. (He will read this).

There was an icing on it! I went gently to eat lunch, and there was a man whose birthday was same day, he is being treated by his wife and two other friends I guess.

They lighted a birthday candle for him and the restaurant played him a birthday song. The excited man announced his new age loudly to everybody “Allo tout le monde, j’ai 61 ans aujourd’hui !” (hello everybody, I am 61 years today!)

People went to his table to make cheers with him, and so did I also. I then told him, it’s also my birthday today. Voilà! He became more happy and announced for the second time “allo tout le monde, on est deux!” (Hello everybody, we are two!) I quickly realized how shy 🙈 as a person I am. I managed to head to my seat. Unknown to me until I was about to leave, he had signaled the restaurant to add my bills to his. That was ezigbo ego maka chi, because I had ordered take away.

Back home from work, my language teacher and the husband who has only known me for 1 year plus rang me and they immediately sang a birthday song for me. At first I was confused as to how she knew, but then realized that the first thing she does once she starts teaching you is to know your date of birth, and she does take note of them. How I became a son to her and the husband is a story for another day. They proceeded to ask me to come to the café shop close to my house in 30 minutes.

We spent the next 2 hours together, eating chocolate cakes and sipping drinks. I felt so happy that the supposed silent birthday had been made flesh!

I needed a silent birthday, though I got it, but the few unplanned cracks were filled with the uttermost love.

One stupid lesson from the whole experience that I told myself was that it was really important to work hard to engrave yourself on people’s heart through good works that they need no reminders again to remember your special days. I also linked the experience to what becomes of us when we are finally gone.

Finally, be not like me. Celebrate your birthdays, successes, achievements and whatever beautiful life throws at you, but also learn not hold grudges when people don’t remember to “post” your pictures with largely irrelevant words.

Ngwanu ka chi foo.

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